“Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.”

“Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?”

“So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.”

“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.”

“"If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?"”

“The center is not something which is under our control, but something that controls us.”

“It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It’s the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.”

“When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something… I don't know… even an earring”

“Do you believe that the dead can influence the living?… Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from the other side of death?… There is such a one…. Someone, something that reaches out from beyond the grave and fills me with horrible impulses.”

“Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.”